Niles, Michigan
Mark Owen Baldwin and Michelle Baldwin, parent’s of a 9 year old daughter with Cerebral Palsy and possibly Autism, were arraigned today in a Grand Rapids, Michigan Federal court on child exploitation charges. Mark Baldwin also faces state charges of criminal sexual conduct.

A federal grand jury indicted both of the Baldwin’s just over a week ago. Mark Baldwin faces a federal charge of possession of images of a minor child; each of the Baldwin’s face three federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child.

A woman accused of severely bruising a 1-year-old boy last year was arrested this week on child abuse charges.

Jessica Orlando, 23, told authorities she was washing her car July 4 at her boyfriend’s house in Holiday when the baby soiled his diaper, so she used a garden hose to clean off the boy — which is what caused his injuries, according to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office report.

The administration of President Barack Obama has taken sides with the Vatican over sexual child abuse lawsuits, saying the Holy See is immune from prosecution in the US.

The stance comes after the country’s largest court of appeals, the nine Supreme Court Justices, asked the White House to declare its position over a case brought by a victim of alleged priestly pedophilia in the US state of Oregon.

CENTREVILLE — The parents convicted of torture and child abuse in the death of their 16-year-old daughter in a fire while she was chained to her bed have requested state-paid attorneys to appeal their convictions.

Court documents filed in St. Joseph County Circuit Court show Anthony and Marsha Springer have made separate requests for appointment of attorneys to appeal their April 16 convictions for torture and child abuse.

EASTON, Md.- Easton police have arrested a 60-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a child.

Police say an investigation revealed that Stephen C. Carr Sr. of Bowie, Md., allegedly abused a child under the age of 14.

EUGENE, Ore. — Growing up in Ohio, Lewis Luchs and his three younger siblings slept on a single mattress on the floor.

“We were so cold, and our mother wasn’t there, that we built a fire of newspapers on the floor,” he said. “During the night, I could feel the paws of rats running across the top of the blankets, and once in a while, whiskers on my face.”

Just as bleak were two years he spent in an Ohio orphanage after being abandoned by his biological parents.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A 50-year-old man accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old Berkeley County girl pleaded guilty under Alford circumstances to two felony counts of child abuse resulting in injury and is scheduled to be sentenced July 29, according to court records.

Under an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt, but acknowledges that there is enough evidence to gain a conviction.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – 22News is taking a closer look at the clergy abuse scandal that’s rocked the Catholic church over the last decade. Many Catholics are furious that former Bishop Thomas Dupre never served jail time for child abuse. Now there’s a push to change the laws to further protect children.

Former Springfield Diocese Bishop Thomas Dupre is currently living in a retirement home for priests in the Washington area, but clergy abuse survivors wish he were in jail.

OCALA – An Ocala police detective charged a 20-year-old woman Tuesday with child abuse after her 2-year-old child wandered onto a busy roadway.

According to officials, on May, two women were in a vehicle heading east on Northeast 14th Street approaching Northeast 25th Avenue when one of them saw a toddler walking between some bushes from the 14th Street Apartments toward the sidewalk.

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. — A man and his girlfriend were arrested late Monday night after Jackson County Sheriff’s investigators determined that he slammed her baby on the floor and caused the 18-month-old numerous injuries, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.
“He beat this baby until she was black and blue,” Byrd said.

Dereck Damiel Griffs, 29, was charged with felony child abuse, Byrd said.

COLUMBIA, Md. — Howard County police say a high school ROTC instructor has been charged with sex offenses after he allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old student at the school.

Fifty-one-year-old Charles Ray Moore of Bowie was arrested Monday and charged with sexual child abuse and sexual abuse of a minor by a person in a position of authority. He has been released on bond. Moore is an instructor at Atholton High School in Columbia.

ROME — A 73-year-old Italian priest has been arrested in Milan for allegedly abusing a foreign teenager over three years, ANSA news agency has reported.

Domenico Pezzini, from the diocese of Lodi, was arrested on Monday over allegations that he sexually abused the alleged victim from the age of 13 to 16.

The alleged victim, who is now an adult, could have been helped financially by the priest.

Jesse James claims that sex addiction and anger management were both addressed during his recent stay at Arizona’s Sierra Tucson Treatment Center, however they are not the main reasons why he admitted himself.

“Those were two of the things I was there for, but the main thing I was there for was being a victim of childhood abuse,” said James during a Tuesday appearance on ABC’s Nightline. “I was always scared. My whole childhood, I never had a chance to be a kid. I just remember the clenched teeth, strained-neck look on his face.”

Pascagoula, Mississippi (The Weekly Vice) – William Velasquez Castillo, a 27-year-old illegal immigrant residing in Ocean Springs, was jailed Wednesday after he allegedly molested a 10-year-old girl. He was arrested wearing a t-shirt that read “I’m hiding from the cops.”

Apparently, he didn’t hide well enough.